Country off the tracks

Sunday

Dec 30, 2012 at 12:01 AM

As this country heads toward a fiscal crisis like a runaway train, it should be kept in mind that it will be a crisis that has been over a year in making thanks to a broken government representation of the will of the American citizens.

We have a Congress that is so fractured that it is paralyzed and unable to function in a bipartisan manner. We are slowly recovering from the deepest recession since the depression and that recovery has been slowed by the fact that we live in a global economy affected by the problems overseas. Our massive debt has been contributed to by the two longest wars this country has ever faced with no dedicated financing.

There is massive wasteful spending of taxpayer monies that isn't being adequately addressed, which includes Medicare. We have a tax system where loopholes have given the rich and super rich the ability to pay a tax percentage less than that of the middle class working Americans. Isn't it about time that government by the people, for the people and of the people be restored to it's rightful place?

James V. Zedak

Freedom

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